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R-devel entrypoint is R not R-devel #416

Closed hhoeflin closed 4 years ago

hhoeflin commented 4 years ago

I pulled the latest R-devel container and when I ran it, I was dropped into version 4.0.2 of R instead of R-devel.

Is this intentional? My expected behavior would be that the entrypoint is set to Rdevel in the rocker/r-devel container.

Thanks for providing these!

eddelbuettel commented 4 years ago

It is, believe it or not. Because we derive from the r-base container, R is always just R.

You want RD. Same for containers drd (== daily r-devel, but now weekly) and drp (== daily r-patched). There is not too much difference between r-devel and drd, the latter is likely a little smaller.

hhoeflin commented 4 years ago

Thanks. Closing.

eddelbuettel commented 4 years ago

I apologise for the poor documentation on this, but it 'has been like this for years' so we can't just change the behavior now. The (excellent) r=debug container by @wch1 does the same so at least using r-devel or drd and their RD use prepares you for later sessions with RDsan or RDvalgrind :)